…working at the interface of ecophysiology and functional genomics to study mechanisms of adaptive evolutionary change.

We’ve been slow to update the website, but we have big news… Beginning in August 2015, the Cheviron Lab will relocate to the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Montana!! We’re really excited about the new opportunities available at UM, but will be sad to leave great friends and colleagues at UIUC.

The Cheviron lab welcomed two new postdocs to the lab this spring/summer. Jon Velotta comes to us from Eric Schultz’s lab at UConn where he worked on osmoregulatory adaptations in newly established populations of alewives in Connecticut. Shane Campbell-Staton comes to us from the Losos and Edwards labs at Harvard where he worked on the evolution of cold tolerance in the green anole. In the Cheviron Lab, both Shane and Jon will be working on the genetics and genomics of adaptation to hypoxic cold stress in deer mice. Welcome guys!!

Witt Lab alum, Cole Wolf, has just arrived on campus to start his PhD in the Cheviron lab. Cole will be working on mechanisms of hypoxia adaptation, phenotypic plasticity, and thermogenic performance in Peromyscus mice. Welcome Cole!

Lab collaborator Dave Swanson from the University of South Dakota visits the lab to learn in the ins and outs of RNA-seq, and to extend our work on seasonal flexibility in thermogenic performance in chickadees and goldfinches.